Huxley murderer's urge to kill was ignored by doctors, parents say

The adoptive parents of Daniel Jack Kelsall, who was sentenced to 40 years prison last week for the stabbing murder of Sydney marine engineer Morgan Huxley, say their son had told medical professionals he was plagued by violent thoughts and needed help.

"If he'd got that help before it might never have happened," his father Mark Kelsall told The Sydney Morning Herald.

"They [the doctors] could have scheduled him or – and if he's guilty it would have saved that boy's life and it would have saved the potential of what everybody has had to go through."

Morgan Huxley. ()

Kelsall indecently assaulted Huxley before stabbing him 20 times after following him home and sneaking into his Neutral Bay apartment on September 8, 2013.

"Now if (a psychologist) has got a guy who said he was carrying a knife around, that he feels like stabbing people, seen him 10 times, why the frig did he take himself off his medication?"

Kelsall, 22, had been diagnosed with various different mental disorders by several medical professionals, and had told his family, GP, psychiatrist and psychologist that his medication – Seroquel – was not working properly.

In the 18 months prior to the murder, Kelsall, who worked as a kitchen hand at the time, had been taken off the Seroquel, prescribed fish oil, and was advised to meditate.